Improvement in detachable brooms



angrwxanc Improvement in Detachable-Brooms.

NO. 130,594. Patented. Aug. 2.0, 1872.

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PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. PIERCE, OF RICHMOND, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DETACHABLE BROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,594., dated` August 20, 1872,

To all whom t may concern.'

I, GEORGE H. PIERCE, of Richmond, in the county of Richmond,Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented a certain new and useful Method of Constructing Detachable Brooms of which the following is a lspecification The Nature of the Intention.

` .Description of the Accompanying Drawing. I

Figure l is a perspective view of the ferrule. Fig..2 is a perspective view of the e'nd ot' the broom-handle. Fig. Sis a cross-section of the handle and ferrule. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the ferrule.

General Description. i Let A represent thehandle of a broom made in the usual'manner, except that its end is slightly coned, and is split up by a s aW-kerf, D, Fig. 1, represents the ferrule c c, Fig. 2.

which are bent inward,

upon which the broom is formed in the usual manner, a stiE Wire or peg beingpassed through the holes t t to take the place ofthe ordinary peg usedin brooms. The ferrule is made somewhat larger than the part of the handle to which it is to be attached, and is formed of a sheet of metal WithinWardly-projecting ends d d. The ferrule, when not on the handle, springs open, as shown in Fig. 4; but When the ferrule is placed on the handle, the projections d d project into the kerf c o, so as to draw the band forming the ferrule together7 and thus making it adhere to the handle. As the projecting parts d d advance into the kerf it is closed up by the action of the ferrule on the coned part 5 thus the ferrule is also held J by this action. l

By my device the'parts that is, the brooms proper and the handlesmay be transported in different packages, thus lessenin g the space occupied by the Whole, and hence saving freight.

I claim as my invention- A broom, when constucted with a ker-fed handle, A, and a ferrule, D, made as described, and serving to hold the broom proper to the handle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

,y GEORGE H. PIERCE. Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, Guns. J. BATEMAN. 

